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On Writing (Modern Library)

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Eudora Welty was an icon of twentieth century literature. Her work reprinted here is straight out of my literary criticism classes of the sixties. All essays were originally published in the sixties and seventies. This book is useful for the student of literary criticism. It is NOT useful for the student of writing technique, characterization, short stories, plot development, use of place and time.

It is unfortunate that most readers who make their way to this page will be writers for this collection of Eudora Welty's essays on the craft of writing is not just for writers.

Readers, too, will find wisdom and insight here. Wisdom to apply to their own lives. Insight into Welty's other works. That The Modern Library collected them is a gift in and of itself.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "Harkening"

If you are a writer, or a lover of literature and literary writing, American in particular, Southern American even more so, this will be a pleasure.

Maybe when this book came out it offered useful information, but I found little that I could use. I'm not a writing scholar, but I've read a few books on the subject and by the time I read this one I found nothing new of use.